The number of reported sicknesses from the recalled moldy Chobani yogurts has now gone over 200, nearly doubling since a week ago, however, upon inspection, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not issue any documentation asserting problems that …
Archives for September 2013
What’s in Your Beverage? Healthy Dining Team Brings Nutritional Awareness to Campus
Every day, students grab a bite to eat from dining halls, vending machines, grease trucks, convenience stores or prepared meals in off-campus housing. Food purchasing decisions may be based on convenience, price or taste – but how much thought goes into how nourishing these food choices are? The Healthy Dining Team is a corps of […]
Grape tomatoes prevail this summer
Summer started agreeably cold and wet. It ended miserably hot and dry. To a gardener, the dryness has some redemptive value: It concentrates the sugars in grapes, melons and, of greatest relevance to most of us, tomatoes. When I traveled to the grand a…
Highland Park resident garners Borlaug Fellowship to help ensure global food security
The 2013-2014 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship recently was awarded to David Rohan Byrnes of Highland Park, a graduate student at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences in New Brunswick. Th…
Using Film to Tell a Rutgers Scientist’s Story
For six weeks this summer, Anne Marie Carlton, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, led a multi-million dollar atmospheric study in the southeastern U.S., considered the largest air quality study in decades in America. While this world-class team was assembled to investigate various components of air quality over that region of the U.S., […]
Designing Around a Mission: Architects Detail Functionality of IFNH Building
The groundbreaking of the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH) building on the George H. Cook Campus took place on August 30. In this video by Rutgers Center for Digital Filmmaking, the Institute’s architecture firm, Ballinger Architects, sheds light on the interpretation of the IFNH mission into a physical space.
Touring Rutgers Gardens through bamboo groves, Holly House
From a cornucopia of serene and green spaces to the peaceful Zen garden and shadowy bamboo forest, Rutgers Gardens gives the University community a space to relax while appreciating biodiversity. Rutgers Gardens, located at 112 Ryders Lane, is a botani…
Cape May wants oyster firms to flourish
Curtis Bashaw, a committee member and hotelier who sells Cape May Salts in three of his restaurants, sees the oysters becoming a tourist attraction. Bashaw said tourists go to the beach in the summer, but during the rest of the year they welcome other …
Salmonella Found in Imported Spices from India and Mexico
Donald Schaffner is a distinguished professor and an extension specialist in food science at Rutgers University. His expertise is in quantitative microbial risk assessment and predictive food microbiology; in other words, he uses math and statistics to help people understand and help manage food safety risks. In his 24 years at Rutgers, Schaffner has educated […]
Researchers Team up for Coordinated Launch of 14 Autonomous Ocean-Monitoring Gliders
Researchers from U.S. and Canadian institutions are teaming up for a coordinated launch of up to 14 autonomous ocean-monitoring gliders. The gliders will collect a unique and extensive set of oceanographic and animal-tracking data along the North Ameri…